The Shillong Times

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The Shillong Times
Daily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Founder(s)Sudhindra Bhushan Chaudhuri
Editor (till 1978-2008)
  • P. N. Chaudguri (1961-1978)
  • Sudhindra Bhushan Chaudhuri(1945-1961)
  • Founded1945; 79 years ago (1945)
    Political alignmentNeutral
    LanguageEnglish
    HeadquartersThe Shillong Times Pvt. Ltd.

    Rilbong, Shillong-4.

    Meghalaya, India.
    Sister newspapersSalantini Janera (Garo)
    Sangbad Lahari (Bengali)
    Websitetheshillongtimes.com
    Free online archivesepaper.theshillongtimes.com

    The Shillong Times is an Indian newspaper. It is

    Padma Shree awardee.[1][2]

    The Shillong Times switched to a modern computer typesetting and offset printing technique on 15 August 1991, and the first issue in broadsheet format came into being.

    A second edition from the town of Tura in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya was launched on 9 November 1992.

    Besides the Tura edition, Shillong Times Private Limited also publishes the only Garo language daily Salantini Janera since January 1993. The Bengali language daily Sangbad Lahari began publishing from Guwahati in June 2009.[1]

    The publication is headed by Patricia Mukhim as its editor, who succeeded Manas Chaudhuri in 2008.[1]

    References

    1. ^ a b c d "About Us". Shillong Times. 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
    2. ^ "Former editor of Shillong Times joining BJP". United News of India. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2024.

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